National Arms Register

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The National Weapons Register (NWR) is managed under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, for Building and Home Affairs on the basis of the Weapons Register Act and shows the legal possession of weapons in Germany.

The operation of the register is subject to the Federal Office of Administration ; it is used, financed and maintained by the federal and state governments as a federal system. It has been active in Germany since January 1, 2013. The basis is the EU Weapons Directive 2008/51 / EC, which stipulates that legal weapons possession must be recorded in a central system. This project was implemented by a working group of the Standing Conference of Interior Ministers and Senators of the Länder from 2009 onwards. The working group was able to implement the EU requirements two years before the deadline.

The tasks include determining who is allowed to carry weapons, who they belong to and how many there are. This register contains the relevant information from all German weapons authorities on weapons requiring a license. This also includes the data of the acquirer, owner and subcontractor of the same. In total, the data from the approx. 550 local weapons authorities were summarized and prepared in a structured manner. One consequence of this is a standardization of the data, ie weapons of the same construction are not listed under different names. The data of the weapons authorities are kept and updated synchronously with the registry authority, so the registry is always up to date.

access

In accordance with Section 10 of the Act on the Establishment of a National Arms Register: Arms authorities, courts and law enforcement authorities including enforcement authorities, authorities responsible for punishing administrative offenses, federal and state police forces, main customs and investigation offices, customs criminal investigation office, tax investigation authorities, federal and state constitution protection authorities , Military Counterintelligence Service, Federal Intelligence Service.

expansion

The interior ministers have decided that the weapons register should show the complete life cycle of a weapon from 2019; this is in accordance with the EU Firearms Directive. The name of the project is NWR II. In addition to the federal and state funding, there are also funds from the Fund for Internal Security of the European Union . The following can then be determined:

  • when and where was a weapon made
  • when and where was a weapon imported
  • which owner had a gun
  • when and where was a weapon exported
  • when and where was a weapon destroyed

Only official bodies have access to the register, private individuals, arms dealers and arms manufacturers have no access. The data to be delivered by them are transferred to a "headend". From this, which is developed and implemented by the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania data processing center, the data is transferred to the register.

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